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Burnley Crown Court heard during the struggle a wallet, perfume and a mobile phone totalling £135 fell out of his pockets which had been stolen from the firm.

Rivers pleaded guilty to theft and a racially aggravated public order offence and was originally given an 18-month community order with supervision and mental health treatment requirements.

However the defendant has now been re-sentenced at the request of the probation service after ‘failing to comply’ with the requirements of the order since January this year. He was given a six-month suspended jail sentence and a four-week curfew.

Kimberley Obrusik, prosecuting, told the court: “The probation service effectively say that there has been continued failure to comply.

“His attitude has been poor, disengaged and disrespectful.

“The order is, the probation service say, unworkable and has been for some time, albeit there has been no further offences committed by the defendant.

“The probation service are of the view that they can be of no further assistance to this defendant.”

Miss Obrusik said the theft and racial abuse incident happened in December 2014.